by Michael Strong | Mar 5, 2020
Toyota expanded an existing recall by 1.2 million vehicles for a problem with fuel pump failures, which could lead the vehicle’s engine to stall. The action grows the total number of affected vehicles to more than 1.8 million after the company’s initial recall of...
by Michael Strong | Mar 5, 2020
The coronavirus epidemic in China put the clamps on new vehicle sales in the country with auto companies seeing an 80% decline in February. The China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) didn’t offer up final sales numbers, but the 80% slide was a slight improvement over...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 4, 2020
The Cadillac Celestiq will take General Motors forward into the past. In a return to the days when the most exclusive luxury products featured hand-built coachwork bodies, the low and sleek sedan will allow extensive customization. But what will become the brand’s new...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 4, 2020
General Motors is carefully monitoring the coronavirus outbreak around the world in a continuing effort to minimize its impact on the company’s employees and operations, GM executives said. “It’s real,” GM President Mark Reuss told reporters as he...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 4, 2020
General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra has frequently declared that the automaker is “on a path to an all-electric future,” and officials for automaker today provided a rare deep dive into its electrification program, covering everything from the new battery technology it is...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 4, 2020
General Motors is making electric vehicle charging for employees even more accessible by making plans to install an additional 3,500 new EV charging plugs at the company’s facilities in the U.S. and Canada. The expansion will triple the number of charging locations...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 4, 2020
Monthly sales reports from several automakers indicated that new vehicle sales continued to roll along in February at a healthy clip. Hyundai, Kia, Subaru, Honda, Mazda and Mitsubishi all reported sizeable gains in February as sales of utility vehicles continued to...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 4, 2020
Chinese-owned EV start-up Byton is nothing if not ambitious. The company is planning an aggressive global rollout for its mByte SUV that will begin in China this year and, if all goes according to plan, see it enter both the Europe and the U.S. in 2021. There could be...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 3, 2020
The Fisker Ocean was one of the unexpected stars at the recent Consumer Electronics Show and was set to make its public – and European – debut this week at the Geneva International Auto Show. Despite the event’s cancellation due to the coronavirus epidemic, Fisker has...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 3, 2020
Despite having to scrub its news conference at the now-cancelled Geneva International Motor Show, Volkswagen is making a lot of news this week. We already got an advance look at the next-generation GTI that was to debut in Geneva. Now, falling back on a livestream...
by TDB Staff | Mar 3, 2020
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by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 3, 2020
The show must go on, in one form or another, and Mercedes-Benz was one of an assortment of automakers to stage livestream news conferences today in lieu of the normal media day at the Geneva International Motor Show. One could easily understand the Schwabian...
